Dictionaries?

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

What portion of the historical collection of spelling dictionaries
have travelled into the AOO project? Once upon a time, the dictionary
source data for various languages was marked up with all sorts of
'category X' licenses. Have any of these been relicensed or otherwise
pulled under the AL umbrella?

Re: Dictionaries?

[Pedro Giffuni <pf...@apache.org>]

Hi Gianluca;

The older italian version is here:

http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo-myspell/


The Croatian dictionary was also relicensed but was dropped
with all the dictionaries.

Ultimately we really don't do dictionaries here in AOO so
grabbing them from other places, as long as their license
permits, is the right thing to do.

Pedro.



>________________________________
> Da: Gianluca Turconi <pu...@letturefantastiche.com>
>A: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
>Inviato: Venerdì 18 Gennaio 2013 6:54
>Oggetto: Re: Dictionaries?
> 
>Il 18/01/2013 1.01, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto:
>> We did have at least one license change (Russian?) but the bundling
>> mechanism is actually designed to retrieve external OXT files at build
>> time.
>
>An old Italian dictionary version was changed to Apache license too. Ask Pedro Giffuni for details.
>
>Regards,
>-- Gianluca Turconi
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>
>

Re: Dictionaries?

[Gianluca Turconi <pu...@letturefantastiche.com>]

Il 18/01/2013 1.01, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto:
> We did have at least one license change (Russian?) but the bundling
> mechanism is actually designed to retrieve external OXT files at build
> time.

An old Italian dictionary version was changed to Apache license too. Ask 
Pedro Giffuni for details.

Regards,
-- 
Gianluca Turconi
Lettura gratuita o acquisto di libri e racconti di fantascienza,
fantasy, horror, noir, narrativa fantastica e tradizionale:
http://www.letturefantastiche.com/

Re: Dictionaries?

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
>> What portion of the historical collection of spelling dictionaries
>> have travelled into the AOO project?

To complete Rob's answer: no dictionaries are maintained as part of the 
project. I've just packaged three dictionaries for OpenOffice 3.4.1 and 
the process works like this:
- Dictionaries are hosted on third-party sites (usually 
extensions.openoffice.org, a community site; but any other stable 
hosting will work). See for example
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/aoo-dict-no
- They are not part of the Apache sources
- By mere aggregation, we include them in binaries. See
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/extensions.lst

> I'm not aware of any license changes on the dictionaries themselves in
> this time period, but maybe others know more.

We did have at least one license change (Russian?) but the bundling 
mechanism is actually designed to retrieve external OXT files at build time.

Regards,
   Andrea.

Re: Dictionaries?

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What portion of the historical collection of spelling dictionaries
> have travelled into the AOO project? Once upon a time, the dictionary
> source data for various languages was marked up with all sorts of
> 'category X' licenses. Have any of these been relicensed or otherwise
> pulled under the AL umbrella?

We took this through legal-discuss last year, and it was approved as
falling under the "mere aggregation" clause of GPL, so not triggering
copyleft considerations.

See:  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117

I'm not aware of any license changes on the dictionaries themselves in
this time period, but maybe others know more.

Regards,

-Rob